About “Perle”
Pearl is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving works from that period. It belongs to the dream vision genre and incorporates elements of medieval allegory. The poem was written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and uses a highly alliterative style, though not consistently. It also features a complex system of stanza-linking as a stylistic element. The author of the poem remains unknown. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1400